German Life History Survey

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German Life History Survey
201 respondents
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The German life history survey (GLHS)

• Retrospective survey about life histories of men
  and women born in 1929-31, 1939-41, and 1949-51
  (3 cohorts)
• Data collected in 1981-1983
• Description Brückner and Mayer (1998). In Giele
  and Elder Methods of life course research,
  Sage.
• Blossfeld and Rohwer (1995) subsample of 201
  respondents with total of 600 employment spells

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The GLS subsample

• Overall average rate of job change
• Number of job episodes 600
• Number of job changes 458 (closed intervals)
• Total time spent in jobs 40781 months
• Average per episode 67.97 months (BR, p. 86)
• Overall average rate of job change
• 458/40781 0.01123 per month (BR, p. 86)

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Retrospective design
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German life history study, Sample data (Blossfeld
and Rohwer, 1995) Event file
1 ID Identif. Number 2 NOJ Serial number of
the job 3 TS Starting time of job 4 ET
Ending time of job 5 SEX (1 men, 2 women) 6 TI
Date of interview 7 TB Date of birth 8
T1 Date of entry into labor market 9 TM
Date of marriage (0 if no marriage) 10 PRES
Prestige score of job i 11 PRESN Prestige score
of job i1 12 EDU Highest educational
attainment
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Number of jobs held, by sex (201 respondents)
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Duration of jobs
(BR, 95, p. 86)
Duration endjcm - startcjm (or interview) 1
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Employment histories
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Employment histories
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Employment histories
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Employment episodes
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Employment episodes
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Position of employment career at selected ages
ORIGIN STATE NOJOB
DESTINATION Age
Occupancy Exposure Entries NOJOB JOB
Censored 0 201 201.00 201
0 0 0 12 201 201.00
0 0 0 0 13 201
199.17 0 0 6 0 14
195 180.58 0 0 24
0 15 173 167.17 0 0
12 0 20 55 62.83 0
0 16 0 25 58
62.00 0 0 3 0 30
61 57.58 0 0 3
6 31 54 51.33 0 0
5 9 35 46 43.92 0
0 4 0 40 41 36.25
0 0 4 5 50
22 17.92 0 0 1 10
51 13 8.83 0 0 0
8 52 5 2.00 0
0 0 5 53 0 0.00
0 0 0 0 TOTAL 4852
4934.00 201 0 323 59 MAGE
0.00 21.61
42.38 DISTRIB 0.00
84.55
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Position of employment career at selected ages
ORIGIN STATE JOB
DESTINATION Age
Occupancy Exposure Entries NOJOB JOB
Censored 0 0 0.00 0
0 0 0 12 0 0.00
0 0 0 0 13 0
1.83 0 0 1 0 14
6 20.42 0 2 2
0 15 28 33.83 0 3
4 0 20 146 138.17 0
24 17 0 25 143 139.00
0 11 10 0 30
138 127.75 0 2 14 19
31 120 108.83 0 5
5 18 35 84 86.08 0
1 4 0 40 88 83.17
0 1 3 17 50 51
37.25 0 2 0 26 51
24 15.67 0 0 0
17 52 7 3.33 0 0
0 7 53 0 0.00 0
0 0 0 TOTAL 3380
3396.83 0 181 277 142 MAGE
25.02 27.11
41.07 DISTRIB 30.17
46.17
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State occupancies
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State occupancy at censoring
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State occupancies201 respondents
Censored
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Exposures and transitions
Years in observation
Open episodes 142
Closed episodes 458
Total episodes
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Transition rates
Exit from job episode (see also SPSS)